On the eve of US network Verizon’s Droid event, Google have added the first major Android revision to the developer SDK. Officially named Android 2.0 and codenamed Eclair, there are a wealth of exciting changes included in this next release and seeing as the expected release date is November, it’s probably not a stretch to imagine the potential Droid phone announcements will all feature the latest Android OS.
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Android 2.0 Goes Official, Exciting Changes Ahead
So, we have had Prada, Armani – both Giorgio and Emporio – D&G and various other fashion designers dip their neatly manicured toes into the world of the mobile phone, each with the intention of creating the ultimate accessory. Now it’s the turn of the flashy French house of Christian Dior. Dior launched their first phones in 2008, but have now updated the range . These phones, the Diamantis and the Cristal Saphir are still listed but the Zelie, Zenaide and Nacre will be added soon, although both will be made to order. The diamond encrusted flip phones are available in red and white, with a frightening price tag of £5,000 for the Zelie and £8,000 for the Zenaide. The Nacre – another five grand - is covered in mother-of-pearl and will be joined by a sapphire Bluetooth headset in stores. Each monstrosity comes with a My Dior mini-phone, which is a Bluetooth module used to make and receive calls without removing your actual phone from your bag.
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Dip into Your Savings, as Dior Add Three New Mobile Phones to Range
Quadrapop, originally launched in 2005, is one of Sony Ericsson’s arcade style games for mobile phones and is pre-installed in many models. Quadrapop has built up a large fan-base.For a major rework and upgrade of the game, Sony Ericsson selected BlueSkyNorth, a highly respected Flash® for Mobile development agency based in the United Kingdom . The updated Quadrapop game has some great new features: Hi-score portal at www.sonyericsson.com/quadrapop Multi-player option Listen to music while playing New graphic look Selectable skins Users can create their own skins using Adobe Flash Users can share skins via the hi-score portal In fact, Quadrapop is so impressive that it has been short-listed as a finalist for this year’s Adobe MAX awards.
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Quadrapop Mobile Game Gets Upgrade
Sprint has finally reached an agreement with Big River Telephone over the lawsuit filled against it by the former as regards VoIP patent right. Details of the agreement reached were not disclosed, but it is clear that Big River Telephone would be allowed to wholesale telephone services to other small cable operators. Under the terms of the settlement, Big River will compensate Sprint for a non-exclusive license to Sprint’s VoP patent portfolio to allow Big River to provide services to predefined cable companies.
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Sprint Settles Big River Telephone Over Patent Agreement
Shazam announced the availability of its music discovery application for Windows phones via the just-launched Windows Marketplace for Mobile. Shazam will be offering a free version as well as a separate full-featured version which users can access for a one-time fee. This will be the first time Shazam is simultaneously offering two versions of its applications at once, giving Windows phone users the choice as to how they want to experience and use Shazam.
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Shazam on Windows Marketplace for Music
Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today unveiled Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1 software for smartphones, smartbooks, netbooks, PCs and other Internet-connected devices, allowing content created using the Adobe Flash Platform to reach users wherever they are. A public developer beta of the browser-based runtime is expected to be available for Windows® Mobile, Palm® webOS and desktop operating systems including Windows, Macintosh and Linux later this year. Public betas for Google® Android™ and Symbian® OS are expected to be available in early 2010
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Adobe Unveils First Full Flash Player for Mobile Devices and PCs
The new LG Chocolate BL40 advert premiered last week and has been very well received. It is part of LG’s £5million investment on this flagship handset, which has the strapline ‘ The Shape of the Future’. The stylish handset is perfect for film fans as the extra wide screen and immaculate sound quality will give a more intense and memorable experience
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LG Chocolate BL40 Advert
Game design guru Sid Meier once managed to convincingly shoehorn all of human civilisation into a computer game, and we’re still escaping into his world of utopia building rather than suffer reality. This latest mobile adaptation of Meier’s long-running franchise is scaled down, though that’s no bad thing. The levels are quite basic 2D maps, with your city at one end and the enemy’s at the other
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Civilization IV: War of Two Cities Mobile Game Review
Great news for all football fans: the Orange.co.uk portal is one of a few places where they can watch the live World Cup Qualifier between Ukraine and England this Saturday 10th October with coverage starting at 4:45pm. The match will not be screened on TV this weekend but customers still have a chance to watch it on Orange through a pay per view service from just £4.99.
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Watch Ukraine vs. England World Cup Qualifier Live on Orange.co.uk
Interesting article published in USA Today, talking about Roger Flessing, a man who recently used Truphone to make a Wi-Fi call while on an American Airlines flight to Seattle. The article raises the issue of whether Wi-Fi calls should be allowed on flights, considering Federal regulators in the USA currently prohibit in-flight cellphone use. A recent New York Times article approaches the subject from a slightly different angle, saying that although it seems many people are against the use of mobile phones on planes, when it occurs many do not notice, and thus very few complaints are recorded
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Should Wi-Fi calls be allowed during flights?
Today Orange hosted a bit of a do to kick off their partnership with the National Enterprise Academy. Founded by Dragon’s Den star, Peter Jones, it gives the budding business people of the future a hands-on education and qualification in entrepreneurship. Part of this joint venture is to challenge the Academy members to pitch their Orange Wednesdays ideas to Peter Jones and Spencer McHugh, Head of Brand at Orange.
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Orange and the NEA: that’s the entrepreneurial spirit
Innovative technology ready for staff and students As students across the country return to university for freshers week, the University of Central Lancashire has become the first UK university to launch its own featured iPhone application. The service provides students and staff with the latest information from the Students’ Union, entertainment listings and maps of the university campus and Preston city centre. The app builds on UCLan’s well-known reputation for offering innovative remote and off-site services to its 35,000 students and staff members
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UCLan becomes first University to launch iPhone app
Putting together a successful remake is no small challenge. A game like Wolfenstein RPG needs to capture the essence of the original, cult favourite and represent its graphical style while giving it a fresh lick of digital paint – and offer something new. Wolfenstein accomplishes all these tasks admirably, with the ingenious addition of turn-based combat blended into the excellent 3D dungeon crawler gameplay.
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Wolfenstein RPG Mobile Game Review
Namco Bandai have launched three new Android Games, Inspector Gadget, Katamari and Dr Kawashima’s brain training! Namco Bandai has released three of its classic games on Android, the first of these classic games is Inspector Gadget, which is a platform game, where you are the character inspector gadget himself! His sidekicks Penny and Brains the dog, must defeat the evil DR.CLAW and stop him in his tracks! Gadgets include ‘go go gadget copter’ ‘go go gadget Brella’ and ‘go go gadget coat!’ with his extendable arms, and his springy shoes. Next is Katamari, with a sticky ball collect all your junk and fire your katamari ball into the sky and replace the stars that were knocked out of the universe while drunk by the King Of All Cosmos! The King himself may offer you quirky advice on your journey you might get jeered at. Dr Kawashima’s brain training will arrive shortly on the Android market, including lots of mini games to keep your mind active.
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Three New Android Games Arrive From Namco Bandai For 2009
The Publisher Simon & Schuster may soon be forced to cough up the roughly $90 million in fines and payouts associated with the class action lawsuit it’s facing for the ill-advised Stephen King promo. This was made known by the court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit which has decided unanimously that a text message campaign led by the company that sent an unintentionally threatening message to thousands of users could cost the publisher $90 million dollars. In 2003, to promote the then new Stephen King novel, ‘Cell,’ the publisher used a list of over 60, 000 phone numbers collected by a third party, not involved in the case, to send the offending text message
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Courts May Award Damages Against Publishers for Sending Unsolicited Text Messages
AT&T is set to release the Motorola Karma QA1, an entry-level slider with full QWERTY keyboard and homescreen access to several social network sites including Facebook and MySpace. The Karma phone not just comes with a high-resolution display, but it also comes with a 2.5-inch 240 x 320 display, 3.6Mbps HSDPA, 2-megapixel camera with video recording functionality and a microSD card slot. The media player supports audio and video and has both a 3.5mm headphone jack and A2DP stereo Bluetooth 2.0 support.
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AT&T Plans to Launch Motorola Karma QA1 Slider Phone
Intel and Nokia have announced a ‘long-term partnership’ to develop a new wave of mobile computing devices based on joint technologies including Nokia’s HSPA capable 3G modem intellectual property. This is big news for open source, since both Intel and Nokia rely on Linux (and open source) for their respective mobile platforms
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Intel Collaborate With Nokia Over Open Source Projects
Unveiling its third powered smartphone branded The Hero, HTC promises that this sense user interface device will be available on some other existing devices. This will give added capabilities such as an expanded Home screen with unique HTC widgets and tighter integration with social-networking tools like Twitter and Facebook
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HTC Announces Third Android Powered Smartphone, The HTC Hero
As the economy is facing tough times now, a smart person should look for smarter ways to spend money. Mobile phones are essential necessities in the modern world and you should look for ways to reduce expenses related to phone. According to recent studies, people all around the world waste several billions by choosing wrong cell phone tariffs.
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How to Choose a Cell Phone Tariff?
Phone cards are reliable, handy and cost-effective communication solutions for those people who make domestic and international callswithout using regular telephone lines. You can use these cards with different typesof phone such as mobile phones, regular phones or public pay phones
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Buy Phone Cards Online – Here’s how
That may sound a bit rude but as we have stated before, Mobshare is not a place for you to ‘Make new friends’, there are N number of other places that lets you do that, albeit, in a much better way. We are here to help you stay in touch with your existing closest circle of offline or rather ‘REAL’ friends with the help of your Mobile Phones! Towards this goal, we recently removed the FRIENDS feature, which we thought was a bit misleading to new users
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Don’t even think of Social Networking here!
What is mobile phone? A mobile phone (also known as a wireless phone , cell phone , or cellular telephone ) is a short-range, electronic device used for mobile voice or data communication over a network of specialised base stations known as cell sites . In addition to the typical voice task of a mobile phone, telephone , current mobile phones may support many additional services , and accessories , such as SMS for text messaging , email , packet switching for access to the Internet , gaming, Bluetooth , infrared, camera with video recorder and MMS for sending and receiving photos and video
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LONDON – March 4, 2008 – The days of making expensive international mobile phones calls are over thanks to Truphone, an innovative UK mobile company. Truphone, the “mobile operator for the Internet age,” has revealed a revolutionary new pricing structure that makes international calling more affordable than ever by eliminating international roaming charges. The company’s service routes all mobile and landline calls using Wi-Fi and the Internet. Truphone customers will be able to call countries in its “Tru Zone” at the fabulously low rates of just USD0.06 per minute to landlines and USD0.30 per minute to mobiles from almost anywhere on the planet. More importantly, a Truphone-to-Truphone mobile call is always free, no matter where in the world the two parties may be traveling
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Truphone Makes International Calling Affordable For Everyone